Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay is both a scholarly and personal endeavor to hold Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and its shift toward Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) accountable to claims of doing critique. First, we deconstruct CDA, and its slippage into an unaccountable ontology of intentionality, hiddenness, and hegemony. As an example of how unaccountable claims might shortchange what critical discourse work can accomplish, we take our own analysis to task. Next, we examine the concerted effort of CDS scholars to reconstruct and reclaim CDA critique by way of reflexivity, multimodality, and interdisciplinarity. We close with a proposal: if CDA’s unfolding into CDS supports an evolution of the critical as material action, then it must identify what matters and move us to do something that matters. We offer some suggestions about how to move forward.
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